Movie Title/Year and Brief Description,
Including Great Quotes and Scenes

Screenshots

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Director John Milius' action-adventure, swords-and-sorcery
fantasy film featured muscle-bound Arnold Schwarzenegger (in a star-making
role after he had reigned as Mr. Universe and starred in Pumping
Iron (1975)) as the vengeful and bitter title character Conan,
in a tale filled with blood, sex, violence, and sword-fighting choreography.

He sought revenge for the slaying of his parents when
he was young by charismatic snake-cult leader Thulsa Doom (James Earl
Jones). On his journey, the orphaned Conan became a slave to the Wheel
of Pain (a gigantic mill-grinder), a pit fighter gladiator, a thief,
and ultimately a swordsman-for-hire.

In the carnage-filled film, the bloodthirsty, brawny
warrior joined forces with cunning thief/archer Subotai (Gerry Lopez)
and pretty Amazonian warrioress-lover Valeria (Sandahl Bergman), Queen
of the Thieves, to combat Doom's snake cult of Set and avenge his parents'
death.

- "What is best in life?"
- "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the
lamentation of their women."

"Grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if
you do not listen, then to Hell with you!"

The opening scene of the destruction of the Cimmerian
village including the death of Conan's father (William Smith) by armored
and trained rottweilers and the slow-motion death of Conan's mother
by beheading, and the death scene of Thulsa Doom by severing his head
from his body and holding it out.

Diner (1982)

Writer/director Barry Levinson's debut film was a bitter-sweet,
nostalgic, rites-of-passage tale of six male buddies in their twenties
growing up in late 50s Baltimore and hanging out in the local diner
at Fells Point - with many fast-paced, late night, often mindless
guy-talk discussions (with overlapping dialogue, both scripted and
improvisational).

The ensemble comedy's tagline expressed the film's theme: "What
they wanted most wasn't on the menu."

The six actors who appeared in the many scenes at the
diner over a long weekend in this character study were many up-and-coming
stars: Steve Guttenberg (as nervous fiancee Eddie Simmons), Mickey
Rourke (as gambler and ladies man "Boogie" Sheftell), Kevin
Bacon (as the irresponsible, troubled, rebellious and drunken rich
kid Timothy Fenwick, Jr.), Timothy Daly (as Billy Howard on a break
from college, with an unmarrying pregnant girlfriend), Daniel Stern
(as the only married one, "Shrevie" Schreiber), and Paul
Reiser (as annoying, wisecracking Modell).

An approaching marriage for Eddie brought the chauvinistic
group together one last time at the diner to eat/drink, and to talk
about sex, sports, and 45 rpm records (and argue about who was the
best singer for making out, Johnny Mathis or Frank Sinatra).

Their confusion was captured in this line by Fenwick: "Do
you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't
know about?"

"Do you wanna bet that she goes for my pecker on
a first date?"

"Every one of my records means something! The label,
the producer, the year it was made ... When I listen to my records
they take me back to certain points in my life, OK? Just don't touch
my records, ever! ... "

"I'll hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family."

The scene of a pre-nuptial 140 question trivia test (65
was passing) about the Baltimore Colts pro football team required by
virginal momma's boy Eddie (Steve Guttenberg) for his off-screen fiancee
Elyse just before the wedding.

The scene between a married couple - neglected and under-appreciated
Beth (Ellen Barkin in her screen debut) and exasperated music-obsessed
'Shrevie' when he complained about her improper alphabetical-categorical
filing of his treasured record collection.

And the popcorn date scene in which "Boogie" fooled
his blonde date Carol Heathrow (Colette Blonigan) into touching his "pecker" when
she reached for a handful of popcorn.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(1982)

Female director Amy Heckerling's energetic, candid
and unassumingly real high-school film, her directorial debut feature
film, was the quintessential teen film of the 1980s. It included
a number of stereotyped but realistic roles derived from screenwriter
Cameron Crowe's (a former Rolling Stone writer) undercover
study-exposé of L.A. high school life during 1982 at a San
Diego HS:

pudgy teenaged high-school freshman Stacy Hamilton
(Jennifer Jason Leigh) who awkwardly lost her virginity in a baseball
dugout to older stereo salesman Ron Johnson (D. W. Brown), and after
another sexual experience became pregnant and had an abortion

sexually-curious Stacy's 'worldly' friend Linda Barrett
(Phoebe Cates) who taught her with a carrot, in the school's cafeteria,
about how to deliver oral sex ("There's nothing to it, it's
so easy")

strict US history teacher Mr. Hand (Ray Walston)

and ticket-scalping lecherous male Mike Damone (Robert
Romanus) who impregnated Stacy during a quick sexual encounter in
a pool house changing room

"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and
I'm fine."

"When it comes down to making out, whenever possible
put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV."

"Surfing's not a sport, it's a way of life. No hobby.
It's a way of looking at that wave and saying, 'Hey bud, let's party!
Ha, ha, ha.'"

The slow-motion sequence of the emergence of red-bikinied
Linda (Phoebe Cates) from an outdoor swimming pool and the slow opening
and shedding of her bathing suit top from the middle (a fantasy mental
disrobing by self-pleasuring Brad (Judge Reinhold)) - often rated by
males as the best nudity scene in any film.

First Blood (1982) (aka Rambo:
First Blood)

Also, the other Rambo films, including Rambo: First
Blood Part II (1985) and its sequel Rambo 3 (1988) and
twenty years later Rambo (2008). [The 1980s Reagan era helped
to provide the perfect backdrop for the Rambo films, in
which the title character refought the disastrous Vietnam War.]

Sylvester Stallone starred in a series of testosterone-filled,
jingoistic, war-oriented films, including this one as surviving ex-Vietnam
Green Beret John Rambo. The Rambo character was a misfit, cartoonish,
long-haired, self-righteous super-hero - a revenge-seeking, buffed
up, brooding ex-Green Beret Vietnam veteran (of Special Operations
Command) who went on a one-man killing spree.

The traumatized war veteran went berserk using his guerrilla
training after being mistreated and unfairly arrested in a small town
in the Pacific Northwest by the small-town sheriff Will Teasle (Brian
Dennehy).

He 'refought' the Vietnam War as a 'one-man army,' using
VC bushwhacking techniques during his battle against a variety of enemies,
including the sheriff, a posse, and hundreds of National Guardsmen.

"For me, civilian life is nothing! In the field,
we had a code of honor: You watch my back, I watch yours. Back here,
there's nothin'!...Back there, I could fly a gunship, I could drive
a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here, I can't
even hold a job parking cars!"

Ex-Green Beret Vietnam vet John Rambo's final impassioned,
preachy speech to Green Beret Col. Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna),
his former commander, about his hostile, unjust reception as a returning
Vietnam War Vet.

48 Hrs. (1982) (aka 48 Hours)

And Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

Director Walter Hill's profanity-filled action-comedy was one of the first buddy-cop films, years before Lethal Weapon (1987) and Rush Hour (2000).

In this male-bonding film, Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (21
years old and in his feature film screen debut while still a cast member
of TV's Saturday Night Live) were paired as two bickering, 'odd-couple'
buddy-cops: temperamental, hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective Jack Cates
in his '64 Cadillac convertible and smooth-talking con Reggie Hammond.
Both disliked each other immensely, with racial overtones, and ended up
in a fistfight with each other in an alleyway.

Their insults were hostile: ("Now get this. We ain't partners, we ain't brothers, and we ain't friends" and "You're just a crook on a weekend pass! You're not even a goddamn name anymore!
You're just a spearchucker with a number stenciled on the back of his
prison fatigues! And I'm through f--kin' around. You tell me the truth
or you're gonna get the living s--t beat outta you").

The film's title referred to the amount of time that Reggie
had been released from prison in Jack's custody to track down cop killers
named Albert Ganz and Billy Bear (James Remar and Sonny Landham), Reggie's
former gang members - leading to a bloody finale.

"...instead of bein' where I oughta be, home in bed with my gal givin' her the high hard one, I'm out here doin' this s--t: roamin' around the streets with an overdressed, charcoal-colored loser like you."

"I've been in prison for three years. My dick gets hard if the
wind blows."

"I was great. Should have my dick bronzed."

The scenes of continual bickering between the couple, and
the scene of Reggie entering a redneck bar and interrogating patrons with
blustering attitude by pretending to be a cop: "I don't like white people... I hate rednecks. You people are rednecks, which means I’m
enjoying this s--t!"

Porky's (1982)

Also Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), andPorky's Revenge (1985) (aka Porky's 3)

This crude, slapstick comedy and sexploitation film helped to launch the teen sex film, with scatological scenes and lots of gross-out, body-oriented jokes. The
film was the ultimate precursor to American Pie (1999) almost two
decades later.

The vulgar and distasteful coming-of-age sex comedy, attracting
mostly male audiences worried about their virility or the size of their
manhood, by writer/director Bob Clark told about several Florida high
school (Angel Beach) boys in the 1950s, especially aptly-named Pee Wee
Morris (Dan Monahan), who all sought to lose their virginity.

All of the females in this infantile film were objectified
as sex objects or props for this comedy, to be spied upon or fantasized
about from afar. In one of the scenes, horny gym teacher Ms. Honeywell
(Kim Cattrall in an early role) was nicknamed "Lassie" because of her orgasmic howling during intercourse.

Porky Wallace (Chuck Mitchell) was the name of the mean-spirited,
redneck, good ol' boy corpulent owner of a popular biker/bar-brothel
just across the county line, who tempted the underage boys and then scammed
them.

- "Jesus Christ. It's the Mother Lode!"
- "I've never seen so much wool. You could knit a sweater."
- "This has gotta be the biggest beaver shoot in the history of
Florida."

"Is Mike Hunt here? Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?"

"What do you use for a jock strap, kid? A peanut shell and a rubber band?"

The "Peeping Tom" scene in the girl's shower-locker
room, during which time Tommy (Wyatt Knight) placed his member through
the spyhole, and gym coach Ms. Beulah Balbricker (Nancy Parsons) charged
forward to make a painful two-handed grab. Also, the scene of sex-starved
Pee Wee being stranded outdoors naked, and being confronted by the cops.

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

And other films in the series: European Vacation (1985), Christmas Vacation (1989), and Vegas Vacation (1997)

In this comedic road film, the always-clumsy and dim-brained
husband Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) took his family cross-country
in a gigantic pea-green "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" station-wagon
with a broken-down engine, bound for California's theme park Wally
World (unbeknownst to them, closed for repairs) - with all of their
arduous misadventures:

Eddie's young daughter Vicki
(Jane Krakowski) bragging about French kissing: "Daddy says I'm the
best at it " and also showing off a shoebox full of weed, while
Eddie's son Dale (John Nevin) bragged: "I've got a stack of nudie
books this high"

the death of Aunt Edna (Imogene Coca) enroute
to Phoenix who was tied to the top of the station wagon

Clark's man-to-man
talks with his son Rusty (Anthony Michael Hall)

Clark's encounters
with a flirtatious and tempting vixen (blonde supermodel Christie Brinkley)
in a passing red Ferrari and in a pool

After arriving in California,
they raced to the entrance of Wally World (to the tune of "Chariots
of Fire") only to be told by a Moose character that the park was
closed, although they took security guard Lasky (John Candy) as hostage.

"I think you're all f--ked in the head. We're ten hours from the f--kin' fun park and you want to bail out! Well, I'll tell you somethin'. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much f--kin' fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our god-damn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your assholes! I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy S--t!"

"You want me to strap her to the hood?...She'll be fine. It's not as if it's going to rain or something."

The vibrating bed scene.

Scarface (1983)

Director Brian De Palma's X-rated (then revised to R)
crime film (with a script by Oliver Stone) starred "Godfather" actor
Al Pacino as Tony Montana. It was a violent update of Howard Hawks'
gangster classic Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
(1932), soaked with blood and cocaine powder in a story of "Scarface's" rise
from Cuban emigre-dishwasher to early 80s Miami drug lord - and his
subsequent fall.

Along the way, he acquired icy and slinky blonde cokehead
trophy wife Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer), who first appeared
in a tight backless dress as she descended in a glass elevator.

The
film's tagline was: "He loved the American Dream. With a Vengeance,"
and much of the film's imagery and language has been co-opted by gangster
rap. Pacino's over-the-top, unrestrained and operatic portrayal of
the monstrous crime lord in this morality tale included profanity-strewn
dialogue, an incestuous liking for his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth
Mastrantonio), and an excessive addiction to snorting mounds of white
powdery cocaine.

The film concluded with the bullet-ridden and coke-convulsed
body of one-man army Tony Montana in a bloody standoff at his mansion
with an M16, and his death by a point-blank shotgun blast in the back,
sending him crashing down thirty feet to his indoor fountain below.

"In this country, you gotta make the money first.
Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the
power, then you get the woman."

"I never f--ked anybody over in my life didn't have it comin' to 'em. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. Do you understand?"

The intense and controversial dismemberment scene during a bad drug deal in which Tony's friend Angel Fernandez (Pepe Serna) was chain-sawed to death (off-screen with bloody splattering and spray) while hanging by his wrists in a motel bathroom shower.